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Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 40 | Tuesday March 22, 2011
InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 14 · Crossword 16 · Sports
Christopher Pham | Daily Trojan
Spring showers
Much of USC’s campus was flooded because of the rainstorm that hit Los Angeles this weekend. Downtown
Los Angeles received 2.42 inches as of midnight Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times. This is a
record amount of rainfall for the first day of spring since 1943, according to the National Weather Service.
Bock exchange: Berlin
Currywurst slings savory
sausages. PAGE 10
Spring practice begins: USC
looks to improve upon last
season’s success. PAGE 16
By dara weinraub
Daily Trojan
Leaders from USC’s Women’s
Student Assembly, MenCare and Take
Back the Night will attend a discus-sion
tonight on the issues of sexual
violence and misogyny raised by the
viral Kappa Sigma email, which has
continued generating controversy.
The email, which has circulated
around the university, asks members
of Kappa Sigma to detail their sex-ual
exploits to members of the fra-ternity.
It also contains a glossary of
terms to describe males, females and
their body parts, categorizes women
by their ethnicity and nationality and
provides a rating system of female at-tractiveness
for the fraternity mem-bers.
Corey Arterian, a senior major-ing
in English and one of the discus-sion’s
organizers, said she hopes the
meeting will create an open dialogue
of the cultural perceptions of men and
women addressed in the email.
“Unfortunately, the fact of the mat-ter
is that this is not just one incident,”
Arterian said. “It’s not that one guy, it’s
not that one fraternity, it’s not frater-nity
row, it’s everywhere. This email
indicates a larger problem on campus
that the university really can’t ignore.”
Arterian and other undergradu-ate
students have been in contact
with eight graduate students who
wrote a petition that was sent to
President C. L. Max Nikias on Friday.
The petition asks for a more pub-lic
and transparent investigation of
the viral email and an open dialogue
concerning the issues of sexual vio-lence
and misogyny. It has more than
120 graduate and faculty signatures,
according to Alex Young, a graduate
student studying English and an au-thor
of the petition.
The controversy surrounding
the email grew when Jezebel, a blog
geared toward women, posted an ar-ticle
March 10 claiming Kappa Sigma
Nationals and IFC hid the truth of
how the email originated and was
leaked to the student body. The post
includes a female student’s account of
how her roommate edited the email
and was approached by Mitchell
Wilson, executive director of Kappa
Sigma Fraternity, and others to not
talk to the Daily Trojan.
“I have not been to USC,” Wilson
said. “I have not spoken with any per-son
who claims to have been involved
in the editing of this.”
Pat Lauer, president of IFC, said he
encourages this woman to come for-ward
to the university if she has evi-dence
about the email.
Students to discuss
Kappa Sigma email
Eight USC graduate students
wrote and sent a petition to
President C. L. Max Nikias.
| see email, page 6 |
By Beroze Dubash
Daily Trojan
All 17 students who were
registered for programs in
Japan this spring semester
have been contacted by the
Office of Overseas Studies in
USC’s College Letters, Arts &
Sciences following the 9.0 mag-nitude
earthquake that shook
the country, triggering a tsu-nami.
Tony Tambascia, execu-tive
director of the Office of
International Services, wrote
in an email that eight of the
students’ programs have been
cancelled by their host institu-tion.
They are now returning
home.
The remaining nine students
are on a semester break from
their Japanese universities.
Most of the students re-ported
they were traveling
outside of Japan at the time
of the tsunami, and a few
remained in Tokyo.
Their host universities are
still considering their immediate
plans, but USC has advised its stu-dents
to withdraw from their lo-cal
programs and leave Japan as
soon as possible.
“USC will assist them in any
way possible with issues such as
refunds of tuition costs, devel-oping
alternate academic plans,
and even assistance with making
travel arrangements for departing
Japan if they have trouble doing
so,” Tambascia wrote.
Tambascia encourages any stu-dents
who are experiencing aca-demic
issues to contact their ac-ademic
advisor or OIS to discuss
the situation directly.
OIS has also been in contact
with the USC Japanese Student
Association and has asked the or-ganization
to remind its members
about the support services avail-able
to students, whether they re-quire
help now or in the future.
These services include coun-seling
services from Trojans
Care for Trojans, Students
Support and Advocacy and the
Crisis Response Team.
University makes contact
with students in Japan
Seventeen students were in
Japan when the earthquake
and tsunami hit the country.
By Beroze Dubash
Daily Trojan
On Friday March 11, a 9.0-mag-nitude
earthquake hit Japan, set-ting
off a tsunami with waves up-wards
of 12 feet. The epicenter
of the earthquake was some 80
miles east of the city of Sendai. By
Saturday morning, most northern
areas of Japan were scenes of devas-tation
and destruction.
The official death toll in Japan
has exceeded 9,000 people, accord-ing
to the Kyodo news agency, but
domestic media has reported that
over 20,000 people are dead or miss-ing,
according to Reuters. Japanese
citizens are facing the loss of their
homes and businesses, as well as
food shortages, lack of clean water
and power outages.
According to USC’s Office of
International Services, there are
143 students from Japan enrolled at
USC as of Fall 2010.
Ryusuke Kondo, a junior study-ing
psychology is one of these stu-dents.
Kondo explained he was not
initially worried when he heard the
news about the earthquake.
“I didn’t think it was such a big
problem since we have so very many
earthquakes in Japan,” Kondo said.
“It wasn’t until I watched the news
that I realized the extent of the
damage and the seriousness of the
situation.”
Another student from Japan,
Shih Lee Tsai, first heard about
the earthquake when a friend’s
mother called from Japan to in-form
them about the situation.
Tsai said it is the resulting black-outs
from the failing nuclear re-actors
that are concerning his
family the most.
“I wasn’t able to get through
Students reach out to family in Japan
The earthquake and tsunami
that hit Japan affected USC
students with family in Japan.
| see disaster, page 11 |
Courtesy of Christine Tai
Family · Christine Tai, a senior majoring in linguistics and sociology,
stands with her mother and her grandfather at the Ebisu Garden Place.

Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | www.dailytrojan.com | VOL. 172, NO. 40 | Tuesday March 22, 2011
InDEX 2 · News Digest 4 · Opinion 7 · Lifestyle 12 · Classifieds 14 · Crossword 16 · Sports
Christopher Pham | Daily Trojan
Spring showers
Much of USC’s campus was flooded because of the rainstorm that hit Los Angeles this weekend. Downtown
Los Angeles received 2.42 inches as of midnight Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times. This is a
record amount of rainfall for the first day of spring since 1943, according to the National Weather Service.
Bock exchange: Berlin
Currywurst slings savory
sausages. PAGE 10
Spring practice begins: USC
looks to improve upon last
season’s success. PAGE 16
By dara weinraub
Daily Trojan
Leaders from USC’s Women’s
Student Assembly, MenCare and Take
Back the Night will attend a discus-sion
tonight on the issues of sexual
violence and misogyny raised by the
viral Kappa Sigma email, which has
continued generating controversy.
The email, which has circulated
around the university, asks members
of Kappa Sigma to detail their sex-ual
exploits to members of the fra-ternity.
It also contains a glossary of
terms to describe males, females and
their body parts, categorizes women
by their ethnicity and nationality and
provides a rating system of female at-tractiveness
for the fraternity mem-bers.
Corey Arterian, a senior major-ing
in English and one of the discus-sion’s
organizers, said she hopes the
meeting will create an open dialogue
of the cultural perceptions of men and
women addressed in the email.
“Unfortunately, the fact of the mat-ter
is that this is not just one incident,”
Arterian said. “It’s not that one guy, it’s
not that one fraternity, it’s not frater-nity
row, it’s everywhere. This email
indicates a larger problem on campus
that the university really can’t ignore.”
Arterian and other undergradu-ate
students have been in contact
with eight graduate students who
wrote a petition that was sent to
President C. L. Max Nikias on Friday.
The petition asks for a more pub-lic
and transparent investigation of
the viral email and an open dialogue
concerning the issues of sexual vio-lence
and misogyny. It has more than
120 graduate and faculty signatures,
according to Alex Young, a graduate
student studying English and an au-thor
of the petition.
The controversy surrounding
the email grew when Jezebel, a blog
geared toward women, posted an ar-ticle
March 10 claiming Kappa Sigma
Nationals and IFC hid the truth of
how the email originated and was
leaked to the student body. The post
includes a female student’s account of
how her roommate edited the email
and was approached by Mitchell
Wilson, executive director of Kappa
Sigma Fraternity, and others to not
talk to the Daily Trojan.
“I have not been to USC,” Wilson
said. “I have not spoken with any per-son
who claims to have been involved
in the editing of this.”
Pat Lauer, president of IFC, said he
encourages this woman to come for-ward
to the university if she has evi-dence
about the email.
Students to discuss
Kappa Sigma email
Eight USC graduate students
wrote and sent a petition to
President C. L. Max Nikias.
| see email, page 6 |
By Beroze Dubash
Daily Trojan
All 17 students who were
registered for programs in
Japan this spring semester
have been contacted by the
Office of Overseas Studies in
USC’s College Letters, Arts &
Sciences following the 9.0 mag-nitude
earthquake that shook
the country, triggering a tsu-nami.
Tony Tambascia, execu-tive
director of the Office of
International Services, wrote
in an email that eight of the
students’ programs have been
cancelled by their host institu-tion.
They are now returning
home.
The remaining nine students
are on a semester break from
their Japanese universities.
Most of the students re-ported
they were traveling
outside of Japan at the time
of the tsunami, and a few
remained in Tokyo.
Their host universities are
still considering their immediate
plans, but USC has advised its stu-dents
to withdraw from their lo-cal
programs and leave Japan as
soon as possible.
“USC will assist them in any
way possible with issues such as
refunds of tuition costs, devel-oping
alternate academic plans,
and even assistance with making
travel arrangements for departing
Japan if they have trouble doing
so,” Tambascia wrote.
Tambascia encourages any stu-dents
who are experiencing aca-demic
issues to contact their ac-ademic
advisor or OIS to discuss
the situation directly.
OIS has also been in contact
with the USC Japanese Student
Association and has asked the or-ganization
to remind its members
about the support services avail-able
to students, whether they re-quire
help now or in the future.
These services include coun-seling
services from Trojans
Care for Trojans, Students
Support and Advocacy and the
Crisis Response Team.
University makes contact
with students in Japan
Seventeen students were in
Japan when the earthquake
and tsunami hit the country.
By Beroze Dubash
Daily Trojan
On Friday March 11, a 9.0-mag-nitude
earthquake hit Japan, set-ting
off a tsunami with waves up-wards
of 12 feet. The epicenter
of the earthquake was some 80
miles east of the city of Sendai. By
Saturday morning, most northern
areas of Japan were scenes of devas-tation
and destruction.
The official death toll in Japan
has exceeded 9,000 people, accord-ing
to the Kyodo news agency, but
domestic media has reported that
over 20,000 people are dead or miss-ing,
according to Reuters. Japanese
citizens are facing the loss of their
homes and businesses, as well as
food shortages, lack of clean water
and power outages.
According to USC’s Office of
International Services, there are
143 students from Japan enrolled at
USC as of Fall 2010.
Ryusuke Kondo, a junior study-ing
psychology is one of these stu-dents.
Kondo explained he was not
initially worried when he heard the
news about the earthquake.
“I didn’t think it was such a big
problem since we have so very many
earthquakes in Japan,” Kondo said.
“It wasn’t until I watched the news
that I realized the extent of the
damage and the seriousness of the
situation.”
Another student from Japan,
Shih Lee Tsai, first heard about
the earthquake when a friend’s
mother called from Japan to in-form
them about the situation.
Tsai said it is the resulting black-outs
from the failing nuclear re-actors
that are concerning his
family the most.
“I wasn’t able to get through
Students reach out to family in Japan
The earthquake and tsunami
that hit Japan affected USC
students with family in Japan.
| see disaster, page 11 |
Courtesy of Christine Tai
Family · Christine Tai, a senior majoring in linguistics and sociology,
stands with her mother and her grandfather at the Ebisu Garden Place.